Donald Trump slammed after suggesting diversity hires to blame for Washington plane crash

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : "President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA.
47% : " Trump said air traffic controllers needed to be geniuses.
43% : "The FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelt out on the agency's website," Trump said.
41% : At one stage Trump told reporters at the White House: "We do not know what led to this crash but we have some very strong opinions.
40% : Mr Buttigeig quickly responded saying that "Trump should be leading, not lying".
40% : Trump said "we are one family" as he expressed condolences for the crash but then proceeded to attack political opponents and unleash grievances about diversity initiatives.
37% : " Trump at points acknowledged that it was too soon to draw conclusions following the crash as he encouraged the US to pray for the victims.
36% : As Trump spoke at a news conference hours after the collision, a federal investigation into the crash was just getting started and first responders were still working to recover bodies from the wreckage of the vehicles that crashed into the Potomac River near Reagan Washington National Airport on Wednesday night.
32% : " Trump said he had no evidence to support his claims that diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and hiring preferences played a role in the crash, allowing that "it just could have been."
31% : Mr Braithwaite told the BBC that Trump had presented theories "based on no evidence at all".
26% : Donald Trump has created a "culture of fear" by coming to conclusions about what happened when a passenger plane crashed into a helicopter mid-air in Washington DC, an aviation expert has said.
26% : Graham Braithwaite, a professor of safety and accident investigation at the University of Cranfield, insisted the focus should be on the human tragedy of the crash but Trump turned his news conference at the White House "into a political exercise".
19% : Trump declared that "you had a pilot problem" and the helicopter was "going at an angle that was unbelievably bad.
12% : During his news conference Donald Trump slammed former US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg as "a disaster" for implementing diversity initiatives at the Federal Aviation Administration, implying that diversity led to incompetence.

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